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Show 974 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 28, 59. ABANTIS PARADISEA Butl. Tana River, 3800 feet, 16th January, 1899. " Taken on a flowering shrub in one of the hottest places and under one of the hottest suns I have ever experienced " (R. C). 60. PYRGUS COLOTES Trim., var. 6 6, Kangonde, 4500 feet, Kitwi, 31st December, 1898. "Taken when playing together, with a single stroke of the net" (R. G.). These examples are blacker above aud browner below than Angolan specimens, but they are spot for spot alike in other respects. 61. GOMALIA ELM A Trim. Muthambi River, 4500 feet, Ndya, 12th January, 1899. " An insect new to me ; taken in the early morning on the flags growing on the river's bank " (R. C). Mr. Crawshay obtained this insect previously at Kikuyu and Ngongo in July and August, but it is impossible for anybody to remember every obscure little thing that has passed through his hands; it surprises me that Mr. Crawshay remembers so many. 62. ACLEROS MACKENII Trim. 6 6, Muthambi River, 10th & 16th January; $, 12th January, 1899. 6. " Quite a new insect to me." § ? " No doubt the other of the pair which I saw of which I took the one five or six days ago in precisely the same spot-in a cool glade in my camp close to the stream. I have meantime each day visited the same place in the hope of securing the other insect, but without success until now." 2 . " Taken in the early morning on the banks of the stream about twenty yards from the spot where I took the pair " (R. C.). Either the white spots on the primaries are sometimes almost obliterated on the female or the example taken on the 16th Januarv is a male; it, however, has the white border of the secondaries almost entirely restricted to the fringe; the body having been squeezed out I cannot be sure that claspers are present. In my opinion it is a female (as Mr. Crawshay evidently believed), but an aberrant one. 63. ANDRONYMUS PHILANDER Hopff. Muthambi River, 11th January, 1899 64. PADRAONA ZENO Trim. Muthambi River, 3rd January, 1899. 2. " Containing two rather large yellow spherical ova. The only specimen of this species which I have seen " (7?. C). 65. GEGENES LETTERSTEDTI Wllgr. 6, Muthambi River, 7th January, 1899. |